the cross­words

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Kitty gives John a drug (7) 5 Push­ing for­wards (5) 8 Made to look great (9) 9 Old boys (3) 10 Dis­miss through drink (4) 12 Eru­di­tion - ob­tained by this? (8) 14 Arnold and Roland up­set him (6) 15 An­drew goes out for a ram­ble (6) 17 Great ad­mirer it ap­pears of de­ferred ac­tion (8) 18 Not falsely loyal (4) 21 Wel­come re­turn for a girl (3) 22 In­ad­e­quate as air gun­ner; fell short as pi­lot (9) 24 The name is right (5) 25 Girl with wry smile has sex ap­peal (7)

DOWN 1 They are posted ei­ther side of the door (5) 2 It is en­gaged in mak­ing a ma­chine work (3) 3 I take friend out in ves­sel (4) 4 Loi­ter per­haps - but he’s un­likely to (6) 5 Turn­ing off the main way (4,4) 6 A sou­venir about what has been left be­hind (9) 7 Con­trol­ling fac­tor (7) 11 In agree­ment? Not I for one (9) 13 Mead­ows seen in un­spoilt de­light (8) 14 In­tend to let out ap­parel (7) 16 When mod­els los­ing their shape are em­ployed? (6) 19 Tear around car­ry­ing Times sup­ple­ment (5) 20 A test for which there is some­thing to be said (4) 23 Is not with­out laughs (3)